1. Tom Wolfe is an interesting example of the benefits of reading your opponents. He was politically conservative but very much shaped by the proletarian & socialist novels of 1930s.
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4. One way to understand Wolfe was that he was trying to revive the tradition -- running from Defoe to Dreiser -- of journalistic literature. More thoughts here: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/148423/tom-wolfe-reunited-journalism-literature …
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5. I'm not a fan of Wolfe's novels, which are ... what's the word I'm looking for .... cringe-inducing. Especially when he tried to adopt voice of a co-ed. But he really did something special with journalism.
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Yeah, I'm still not going to read Bukowski.
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Ah. That's why he sounded like watered-down Dos Passos.
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Which was *exactly* his stock-in-trade, and what he made himself into.
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